Kaspersky crowned the rise of mobile banking Trojans a trend of the year.

The company elaborated: “2013 was marked by a rapid rise in the number of Android banking Trojans. The cyber industry of mobile malware is becoming more focused on making profits more effectively, i.e., mobile phishing, theft of credit card information, money transfers from bank cards to mobile phones and from phones to the criminals’ e-wallets. Cybercriminals have become obsessed by this method of illegal earnings: at the beginning of the year we knew only 67 banking Trojans, but by the end of the year there were already 1321 unique samples.”

The vast differences in regional infection rates are crucial to note. Russia had 40% of all attacked individuals. India placed second with 7.9%.

The United States is in 8th place – behind Kazakhstan, the Ukraine, Germany and the United Kingdom – with 2.13% of attacked users.